The State Finance Commission has pulled up the Kozhikode Corporation for poor revenue mobilisation and ineffective implementation of schemes in the city.
At a sitting at the District Collectorate here on Friday to review the financial position of the civic body, commission chairman B.A. Prakash pointed out that the civic body had failed to increase revenue in spite of the implementation of revised property tax. At the same time several grama panchayats had successfully doubled their earnings.
He said that the Corporation had also failed to resourcefully implement its schemes. The civic body showed a tendency of implementing schemes towards the end of the financial year.
Waste management
The commission said that the Kudumbasree volunteers engaged in the door-to-door collection of household and market garbage had not been given any special financial assistance.
These women should be provided with more monetary benefits so as to improve the solid waste management system in the city.
The Corporation did not have facilities to check the quality of meat sold in the city. The engineering wing of the Local Self Government Department functioned like an autonomous unit, the commission said.
However, the Corporation representatives requested the commission to recommend hiking of corporation tax, rent of buildings, user fee, and property tax every four years.
The implementation of schemes had been affected due to the shortage of technical staff in the Corporation.
